The Adjustment Bureau - George Nolfi - 2011

"The affair between a politician and a ballerina is affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart." - IMDB.

I was slightly misled by this movie but still enjoyed it.  It looked to have a Dark City premise but that was merely and undertone to the prominent Sleepless in Seattle story (only love story movie I could think of).  It had just enough of the "what the fuck is going on" mystery/thriller moments to keep me watching instead of defecating in the aisle and waiting for a rose to bloom rather than for another second looking at the screen.  I guess you can take that as a compliment.

The mysterious forces keeping them apart are guys in hats who are either Angels, Aliens, or Jehovah's Witnesses.  I think the latter.  They have a plan set in motion for everyone that they put into play by tweaking random occurrences.  The plan goes awry when "Matt Damon" continuously meets the ballerina, Emily Blunt, which completely opposes the plan.


One major flaw I see in the ethics of the The Adjustment Bureau, the organization in the movie not the movie itself, is that their hats relinquish the power to use doors as portals throughout the city (Monsters, Inc much?).  I guess their biggest threat is wind.  

Hat fly off.  Bye bye powers.  Hobo bum piss smelly rapist find hat.  Hello intermittent sodomy.  Hello sequel? 


I did like this movie as it may not seem.  Both "Matt Damon" and Emily Blunt did some great acting and the movie wasn't a shit fest rom-com lobotomy.  I was let down with Terence Stamp's "Thompson" character due to the promise of the "Oh shit! You don't mess with Thompson" persona he was given but did not deliver anything more brutal than a paper cut.  This doesn't take away from how awesome Stamp is though, watch The Limey.

The ending was quite hack and predictable but all in all was enjoyable.